March 7, 2013

• 10 Things

  I haven’t done this in a long time, and I thought that it might be a nice change.  Besides, I had NO idea what to post today, and it works as filler, for the time being.  Considering number three.

  1. I have a goal.  I want to finish the ‘Ghost Whisperer’ series before Passover.  We have 12 episodes left, so it’s very doable.  But my REAL reason is because I’m sick of it and want to do the 613 Torah commandments with Brian.  I’m antsy to get started, but we need to finish the series to free up our after-kids-are-in-bed time.  And by the way?  Ghost Whisperer’s son annoys the heck out of both Brian and I, we never warmed up to Eli, and the whole ‘shinies/shadows’ thing blows.

  2. We’re supposed to go to Mackinaw Island this spring.  I’ve never been, although Brian went the year we met, with his grandparents.  I… am not sure I want to go.  I think it’s going to be a let-down as far as things to see/do, with a high gasp-factor as far as exorbitant prices go.  I’ve been trying HARD to talk myself into it.  It’s not working.  I’m running out of time to get into the groove of it… I checked out this book on things for families to do in Michigan, and the Island, the Fort, the Bridge, the whole thing?  Takes up HALF a page in this book.  WTHeck?!  Anyhow, I’m tempted to try to talk Brian into doing the lighthouses down the east side of the state on the way home, instead.  And anything else in the book that might strike my fancy.  Gimmicky tourist traps make me break out in hives.
  3. I have been working feverishly at getting my stuff updated on line this week.  You haven’t noticed, I know, but it’s true.  I’ve added a metric CRAP-ton of stuff to my Pinterest board.  Did four ‘SotW’ posts here (and backdated them… one is still in process, because I have to add pictures to it, and haven’t gotten to that, yet.  I’ve been printing projects, unit studies, worksheets, and have been trying to get organized, again.  Today’s job is adding to our Book of Centuries – I need to do the 1800s in decade-sized increments, so I have to add pages to all of the books.  Except that my old file isn’t compatible with my current PC (hate Microsoft), so I have to re-format the whole file.  Also need to finish the ‘Seven Wonders’ lapbook I have partially put together… so that it also has the modern and natural wonders.  In case you thought I was just twiddling, over here.  ((Wink!))
  4. Of all of the women who are DESPERATE to get the chicken pox, I was the only one to have traveled to the Metro Detroit home to try to contract it, I found out yesterday.  That blows my mind.  If I was the ONLY one, and I drove across a state in a snowstorm?  They weren’t really desperate, were they?  It just… I have very little respect for my fellow mothers out there, I have to tell you.  And the sucky part?  Not a spot on any of my children.  Not ONE.  After all that.  At least I don’t have to lie about it… we just didn’t catch it, apparently.  Although Brian says technically we have two more days.  ((I say ‘snort’.))
  5. My March calendar is BOOKED.  No crap, I can’t believe how much stuff is going on in the month of March.  It feels wrong, like a distraction – because of the whole ‘something’s-gonna-happen’ feeling that runs like an undercurrent in my psyche.  But anyhoo… it’s just one thing after another.  I’m kind of glad, but another part of me wants less scheduled activity and more opportunity to just… blow where the wind takes us?
  6. I quit working on fitness/weight just before Valentine’s.  And it hasn’t bothered me – even been a thought in my head! – until this week, and all of a sudden, I’m just HUNGRY.  And it’s bad – I’m not a snacker, and suddenly I’m craving snacks which has me thinking about fitness/weight, and… it’s just a sucky situation, all around.  Although Brian says he’s the same way – just HUNGRY all the time.  I don’t know what has set us off.  Maybe it’s not just us?  But if this doesn’t stop, I’m gonna have to whip out the Richard Simmons, again… doesn’t sound like fun.
  7. I keep dreaming about our old house up north.  I don’t know why… it’s really strange.  I dream about it all the time, and each time, we’re moving back into it, and of course it needs a LOT of work because of what the previous owners (people who have it now) have done to it.  In the dreams, we’ve got all of our stuff on trailers, and are walking around, deciding what goes where.  The thing is, I have NO desire to move back up north.  At all.  The commute, the cost of heating in a drafty old farmhouse, the SNAKES, the horsehair lathe… my list is a mile long of reasons NEVER to go back there.  And yet I dream of that place all of the time.  It’s disturbing.  It drives me crazy.  I’m being stalked by a farmhouse in my dreams.  Okay, that’s just wacked.
  8. This week, I took to stalking extended family on Facebook.  See, I wanted to know if any of my great-aunts/uncles were on-line.  I miss them.  And then I thought that maybe there’d be pictures on their grandkids’ sites of them (since I couldn’t find most of them… it’s a generational thing.  Older generations aren’t on FB, typically).  I don’t know family under the age of 50 – anyone my own age I’m clueless about.  Anyone younger?  Fuggidaboutit.  But I found BIG family pictures including my great-aunts/uncles, and learned a lot about my relatives.  If I were into geneology, I could’ve had a field day with trying to put new stuff in the book I have.  But mostly I believe geneology is a distraction to keep people looking back, from focusing on Yehovah’s current and pending plans… so I have mostly steered clear.  Still… it was fun looking for people I have missed having in my life.  And I had a nice conversation with a Sr. I thought was a Jr. (which would’ve made the Jr. a III…) but heck if I know.  I get blonde when it comes to that.  Prob’ly a good idea I don’t do geneology.
  9. Do you ever get a hankering for something?  I have had this INCREDIBLE hankering to go swimming, lately.  It’s a chlorine thing – from my days in swim training.  Every once in a while, I just crave chlorine and echoey teal spaces.  I can’t help it.  And it’s been eating at me for about three weeks, now.  The local pool SUCKS… it’s colder than a polar bear’s arse, and it’s never open (dependent on participation numbers).  There’s a pool only 5 minutes further (in the opposite direction), but it’s a funky pool – shaped like an ‘L’ with the shallow lanes being the longer leg, and the deep end is the short leg off it.  Very weird.  But there’s free swim there at the SAME time as the kids’ dance classes, and we go past to get to dance, and again to go home… so technically, Brian could drop me off, I could swim, and then he could pick me up after dance and we could go to supper.  That feels SO. DAMN. SELFISH that I can’t bring myself to do it.  I can’t ask Brian to take the kids to dance alone.  Besides, if something happened on the way there?  I wouldn’t be with them.  I know… I’m hopelessly pathetic on so many levels.  Anyhow, there’s another pool, 15 minutes further away, and I heard that it’s WONDERFUL… but I can’t find ANY information on-line about free swim there.  I know they have it, but I’m not even sure where the facility is.  Yeah.  It’s definitely a hankering…
  10. I can cook and bake.  Which probably sounds stupid, but it’s true.  See, I come from a long line of women who bake.  Who it was a BIG thing to, the whole baking scene.  They were known for it.  So that’s no big.  But the line I come from does NOT cook.  And yet… I love to cook.  I do.  I’m not the measuring type, and I tend to add spices and extra ingredients to make it better, but I do love to cook.  My mother and sister canNOT cook, At. All.  According to my mom, my SiL can’t cook.  But I can cook.  AND bake… that wasn’t sacrificed.  Which is why my waist looks like it does… well, that and six pregnancies.  Anyhow, I only mention this, because today I’m going to try this recipe (LINK).  And btw, if it has chocolate in it?  I’m ALL about baking it.  Now you can go on your merry way, knowing that my home smells of caramel, chocolate, and banana, and you can’t have any… bwahahahaha!!!  ((Have a good day, anyhow!))

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